Henry Burton

Henry Burton (1 January 1741-30 October 1776) was a Colonel of the British Army who served in the American Revolutionary War.

Biography
Henry Burton was born on 1 January 1741 in Derby, Derbyshire, England. He joined the British Army in 1759 at the age of 18 and was shipped to North America to fight in the French and Indian War under the command of General James Wolfe at the Battle of Quebec. He rose to the rank of Colonel by the time of the American Revolutionary War, and Burton led an army of 1,000 troops during the New York and New Jersey campaign of 1776-1777. On 30 October 1776 he was killed at the Battle of Burton's Mill in what is now Manhattan's East Village.